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Commit 6889ee5a authored by Amir Goldstein's avatar Amir Goldstein Committed by Miklos Szeredi
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ovl: relax WARN_ON() on rename to self



In ovl_rename(), if new upper is hardlinked to old upper underneath
overlayfs before upper dirs are locked, user will get an ESTALE error
and a WARN_ON will be printed.

Changes to underlying layers while overlayfs is mounted may result in
unexpected behavior, but it shouldn't crash the kernel and it shouldn't
trigger WARN_ON() either, so relax this WARN_ON().

Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+bb1836a212e69f8e201a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Fixes: 804032fa

 ("ovl: don't check rename to self")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
parent 9c6d8f13
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